METHOD FOR EXECUTING REWARD PROGRAM Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: various fields of human activities: marketing, headways for commodities and services, advertisements, games. SUBSTANCE: method includes following operations: program organizers establish at least two voting alternatives by means of central computer in favor of one of them and set at least one time interval to allow voting for program participants. The latter vote by means of data input devices designed for connection to central computer at program organizers'. Program organizers record votes of program participants to identify them for each alternative within preset time interval, count votes for each alternative, and determine alternative that has gathered smaller number of votes whereupon program organizers determine value of one vote and assign reward according to votes of alternative that has gathered smaller number of votes. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency of selling commodities and/or services. 2 cl, 1 dwg